<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.64.464" ID-GBIF-Dataset="6b201dfe-5a6c-4f3d-a08b-d149b0595eaf" ID-PMC="PMC3088402" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-64-33" ID-PubMed="21594024" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2010" ModsDocID="1313-2970-64-33" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 64" ModsDocTitle="New species and new records of Mydidae from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Insecta, Diptera, Asiloidea)" checkinTime="1451250921296" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Dikow, Torsten" docDate="2010" docId="F8E6B8E5855E1D0790572614A1C36E75" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 64: 33-75" docOrigin="ZooKeys 64" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.64.464" docTitle="Syllegomydas (Notobates) Hesse 1969" docType="treatment" docVersion="6" lastPageNumber="57" masterDocId="4628053AE3231F40CA513918057EFFF9" masterDocTitle="New species and new records of Mydidae from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Insecta, Diptera, Asiloidea)" masterLastPageNumber="75" masterPageNumber="33" pageNumber="57" updateTime="1682090020469" updateUser="ExternalLinkService"> <mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>New species and new records of Mydidae from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Insecta, Diptera, Asiloidea)</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Dikow, Torsten</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource> <mods:relatedItem type="host"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:part> <mods:date>2010</mods:date> <mods:detail type="volume"> <mods:number>64</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:extent unit="page"> <mods:start>33</mods:start> <mods:end>75</mods:end> </mods:extent> </mods:part> </mods:relatedItem> <mods:location> <mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.64.464</mods:url> </mods:location> <mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification> <mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.64.464</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-64-33</mods:identifier> </mods:mods> <treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159360426" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:F8E6B8E5855E1D0790572614A1C36E75" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F8E6B8E5855E1D0790572614A1C36E75" lastPageNumber="57" pageId="24" pageNumber="57"> <subSubSection pageId="24" pageNumber="57" type="nomenclature"> <paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="57"> <taxonomicName ID-CoL="89SSP" authority="Hesse, 1969" authorityName="Hesse" authorityYear="1969" class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas (Notobates)" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Notobates">Syllegomydas Notobates Hesse, 1969</taxonomicName> </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="24" pageNumber="57" type=""> <paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="57"> <bibRefCitation author="Hesse, AJ" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum" pageId="32" pageNumber="65" pagination="1 - 388" title="The Mydaidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa." volume="54" year="1969">Hesse (1969: 274)</bibRefCitation> described the subgenus <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Notobates" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Notobates" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Notobates</taxonomicName> to accommodate two species, <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas arnoldi" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arnoldi">Syllegomydas arnoldi</taxonomicName> Bequaert, 1938 and <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas rhodesiensis" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rhodesiensis">Syllegomydas rhodesiensis</taxonomicName> Bequaert, 1938, from Mozambique and Zimbabwe and provided a key to the species. He did not place <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas dispar" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dispar">Syllegomydas dispar</taxonomicName> (Loew, 1852), also from Mozambique, in this subgenus, because he had not studied specimens of this species. Having studied the <typeStatus>type</typeStatus> specimens of <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas dispar" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dispar">Syllegomydas dispar</taxonomicName> at the <collectionCode collectionName="Germany, Berlin, Museum fuer Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitaet">ZMHB</collectionCode> as well as additional specimens from several collections, it becomes clear that this species should also be placed in <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas (Notobates)" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Notobates">Syllegomydas (Notobates)</taxonomicName> based, for example, on the undulating vein A1 and the long antennae (longer than scutum). Both <bibRefCitation author="Hesse, AJ" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum" pageId="32" pageNumber="65" pagination="1 - 388" title="The Mydaidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa." volume="54" year="1969">Hesse (1969: 295)</bibRefCitation> and <bibRefCitation author="Bowden, J" editor="Crosskey, RW" journalOrPublisher="British Museum of Natural History, London" pageId="32" pageNumber="65" pagination="325 - 333" title="27. Family Mydidae" volumeTitle="Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region" year="1980">Bowden (1980: 333)</bibRefCitation> listed <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mydidae" genus="Syllegomydas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syllegomydas dispar" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dispar">Syllegomydas dispar</taxonomicName> as <taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="24" pageNumber="57" rank="tribe" tribe="Syllegomydini">Syllegomydini</taxonomicName> incertae sedis. Therefore, this species is here re-described and illustrated to allow identification in the future. </paragraph> </subSubSection> </treatment> </document>